## Meanings
1. To give something and receive something else in return.
2. The act of giving one thing and getting another in return.
3. A short conversation, often an angry or unpleasant one.
4. A place where shares, currencies, or goods are bought and sold.

## Examples
- They exchanged phone numbers before saying goodbye.
- She gave him her bike in exchange for his guitar.
- There was a heated exchange between the two drivers.
- Share prices fell sharply on the stock exchange today.

## Synonyms
- barter
- swap
- wrixle

## Derived Forms
- amnioexchange
- anex
- deuteroexchange
- exchangeability
- exchangeable
- exchangee
- exchangeless
- exchanger
- forex
- heteroexchange
- interexchange
- misexchange

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: eschaungen
- Root: eschaungier
- Root: eschanger
- Root: *excambiō
- Root: ex
- Root: cambiō

## Etymology
From Middle English eschaungen, from Anglo-Norman eschaungier, Old French eschanger, from the Old French verb eschangier, eschanger (whence modern French échanger), from Vulgar Latin *excambiāre (from Latin ex with Late Latin cambiō). Gradually displaced native Old English wrixlan, wixlan (“to change, exchange, reciprocate”) and its descendants, wrixle being one of them.

## AI Etymology
Exchange comes from Middle English eschaungen, from Anglo-Norman eschaungier, Old French eschanger, from the Old French verb eschangier, eschanger (whence modern French échanger), from Vulgar Latin *excambiāre (from Latin ex with Late Latin cambiō). Gradually displaced native Old English wrixlan, wixlan (“to change, exchange, reciprocate”) and its descendants, wrixle being one of them.

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